Grey's Anatomy Season 3 Episode 10: "Don't Stand So Close to Me" Quotes

[narrating] "At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, it's usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we've chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them. The people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping. And sure, sometimes close can be too close. But sometimes, that invasion of personal space, it can be exactly what you need."

MEREDITH: "Izzie, you cut the LVAD wire and she stuck by you and did Denny's ECHO. Alex cheated on Izzie with syph nurse and she helped you study for your boards. And George, when everybody was calling you 007-"GEORGE: "She was calling me 007." [leaves]MEREDITH: "Just let her off the hook."ALEX: "It's okay."IZZIE: "Sorry."

MR. O'MALLEY: "You're angry, Georgie. At Callie, at your brothers, at Dr. Hahn, at Dr. Bailey, at Dr. Yang, at Dr. Burke! That's a long list of people to be angry at. Especially when the person you're really angry at is me."GEORGE: "Dad?"MR. O'MALLEY: "I drank and I smoke and I won't exercise and I eat all the wrong things and now, I have cancer. And you have to take care of everything. You have to take care of me."GEORGE: "I don't mind."MR. O'MALLEY: "You do. You're mad at me and that's okay because I'm mad at me too. You think I wanna die and leave my boy in charge?"GEORGE: "You're not going to die."

MR. O'MALLEY: "You're so angry. You've been picking fights every chance you get and that's not like you."GEORGE: "Dad. You don't know what's been going on."MR. O'MALLEY: "Okay then tell me. Why are you so mad at Dr. Torres?"CALLIE: "I should go. I have patients to see."GEORGE: "No, you know what, I'm going to go."

GEORGE: [to Cristina] "Got a head count of how many patients you two lied to the past month?"MEREDITH: "George."IZZIE: "Leave her alone. Her patients live so she gets to scrub in."MEREDITH: "Izzie."CRISTINA: "Meredith, please can you just stop defending me?"

ALEX: [to Cristina] "You're here? You haven't been kicked out of the program yet."MEREDITH: "Alex."CRISTINA: "No, not yet. I'm still here."ALEX: "How did you do it? I mean, did you have some kinda signal in surgery so that the nurses wouldn't know? Or did you..."MEREDITH: "Alex!"ALEX: "What? I'm just wondering how to get ahead around here. Me? I get coffee for Sloan and Yang gets surgeries none of us would get."

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[narrating] "At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, it's usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we've chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them. The people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping. And sure, sometimes close can be too close. But sometimes, that invasion of personal space, it can be exactly what you need."